Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] a person " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ as if a person could belong to anybody other than themselves ! |
| 2 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 3 | ‘ 7(1) In the course of an investigation into whether a person has committed an offence under section 4 or 5 of this Act a constable may , subject to the following provisions of this section and section 9 of this Act , require him — ( a ) to provide two specimens of breath for analysis by means of a device of a type approved by the Secretary of State , or ( b ) to provide a specimen of blood or urine for a laboratory test . |
| 4 | Jung 's distinction drew attention to whether a person relates predominantly to others and less to the self or vice versa . |
| 5 | One can not , in other words , argue from the premise that people may disagree as to whether a person was in fact placed in fear for their bodily safety , to the conclusion that a decision-maker can have untrammelled power to decide whether such an apprehension is indeed a constituent part of the offence at all . |
| 6 | In at least one area this varied according to whether a person was seen by elderly services or others , because staffing profiles were much more biased towards medical care for elderly people with mental illness , with the result that other professions , such as social work , occupational therapy , and community psychiatric nursing , were less frequently called upon . |
| 7 | Depending on whether a person is a Muslim or not , the sentence varies according to circumstances . |
| 8 | Some of these were enshrined in local guidelines , such as whether a person was deemed ‘ vulnerable ’ , or if they lived alone or had repeated admissions to hospital . |
| 9 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 10 | He said that as well as your meticulous attention to detail — so important with diabetic care — you had an infallible instinct for when a person was in pain . |